May 18, 2011
My 12 week old pup scratches and bites himself excessively even though nothing is wrong with his skin. Do you have any advise about what to do?
Full Question:
Good Morning Ed,Just a quick note to say how very much we enjoyed your 8 weeks to 8 months puppy DVD. After having read your web site. from top to bottom, we did not agree with some of the more conventional issues, but your DVD gone a long way to make us understand these.
I have a question though. Our puppy who is 12 weeks now, seem to scratch excessively, also bites his thighs, various vets have seen him and agreed that he does not have any fleas or skin problem and explained it as a habitual scratching. They also mentioned that he may need steroids (but won't say why). He has been prescribed antihistamines and also eardrops (?), which made it slightly better, but he seem to still scratch a lot and whines when doing so, so obviously he is in some discomfort. Do you have any advise on what we should do?
Also we would love to keep him as a house pet, we would to make the most of his intelligence, what other DVDs from the web site. are suitable for further obedience training later on, without turning him into a protection dog?
Ed's Answer:
I can almost 100% guarantee that what you are seeing in your dog are allergies due to vaccinations. You can read about Vaccinosis on my web site.
If you want to learn what I would do - go to my list of articles and read what I do for allergies.
Get the dog off commercial kibble and on an all-natural diet.
Also DO NOT EVER VACCINATE THIS DOG AGAIN!! Never - you will have to vaccinate for Rabies but nothing else. If you doubt or question what I say - do your dog a favor and buy the book we sell titled "Shock to the System."
You will also want to get my Basic Dog Obedience video.
And finally:
I recommend that you direct your questions to my web discussion board. It has over 6,0000 registered members. There are some talented people on my board. You will need to register before you can post questions but you can read the board and its EXTENSIVE archives without registering.
The registration process can take a couple of days to get approved. We make people use their real name on the board – not a pseudo name. This eliminates perverts and pukes from posting obscene information on our board. In my opinion this is one of the reasons my web board is so good because there is accountability for peoples' posts when they have their name associated with their post.
If you want to learn what I would do - go to my list of articles and read what I do for allergies.
Get the dog off commercial kibble and on an all-natural diet.
Also DO NOT EVER VACCINATE THIS DOG AGAIN!! Never - you will have to vaccinate for Rabies but nothing else. If you doubt or question what I say - do your dog a favor and buy the book we sell titled "Shock to the System."
You will also want to get my Basic Dog Obedience video.
And finally:
I recommend that you direct your questions to my web discussion board. It has over 6,0000 registered members. There are some talented people on my board. You will need to register before you can post questions but you can read the board and its EXTENSIVE archives without registering.
The registration process can take a couple of days to get approved. We make people use their real name on the board – not a pseudo name. This eliminates perverts and pukes from posting obscene information on our board. In my opinion this is one of the reasons my web board is so good because there is accountability for peoples' posts when they have their name associated with their post.
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